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Is this somewhat related to reservoir computing?

"Nothing brings fear to my heart more than a floating point number." Gerald Jay Sussman.

What you are referring to is stiffness, which is different than backlash. Backlash, or play, is due to gaps.

The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

We can only hope the parent comment indeed knows a better source or even what he is talking about. Let give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that the shortness of his comment derives from a lack of time and not from a lack of knowledge.

Exactly this. And the incentive it creates is very perverted. It would be much easier to just tax CO2 at the source, instead of this corruption prone system of carbon credits where you need to audit thousands of places instead of only one: the oil pipe.

The control rods with the graphite on the tip was the cherry on top...

We enjoyed a peaceful 'air pocket' in tech, but this is over. And it makes sense. Technology is rendering regular people useless. And when they eventually get destitute they will rebel. If I were the ruling elite I too would move fast to increase my control over the masses.

It really is incredible to believe that a sports organization has the power to shutdown what is essentially a utility without any oversight. It paints a very bad image of Spain in my mind. It makes one wonder how many more absurdities happen over there.

One interesting thing about the Teller-Ulam design is that you can scale the bomb as big as you want. Imagine a skyscrapper sized bomb.

How does ntfy compares to Pushover?

AI research is like the topic of sex during adolescence: of everyone say they are doing it, few are; and the few that are in fact doing it are probably doing it wrong.

Why spend so much effort to achieve an "exact" gear ratio? Having more zeros does not equal to being more "precise".

Also, I wonder how resistant this mechanism is to wear and fatigue.

>"[...] and builds user trust with each successful alert"

So the company notorious for killing projects is going to tackle infrastructure grade systems? I don't trust Google to tackle this problem.

The issue is not that these problems are easily underestimated, but that the researchers are very proficient at repeating the same mistakes over and over again.